This list of Ivy League medical schools outlines the seven universities of the Ivy League that host a medical school; only one Ivy League university, Princeton University, does not have a medical school. All Ivy League medical schools are located in the Northeastern United States and are privately owned and controlled.
At two universities, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, medical instruction takes place on a contiguous campus shared with undergraduate students. The medical schools of Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University are located on independent campuses within the same metropolitan area as their parent institutions' primary campuses. Cornell University's school of medicine is located in New York City, at a distance from the university's main campus in Ithaca.
Image | School name | Parent institution | Founded | Location | Distance from main campus | Degrees offered |
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Perelman School of Medicine | University of Pennsylvania | 1765 | Philadelphia, PA | N/A | MD, DMD, PhD, MPH, MSCE, MTR | |
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons | Columbia University | 1767 | New York, NY | 2.5 mi (4.0 km) | MD, DDS, PhD, DPT | |
Harvard Medical School | Harvard University | 1782 | Boston, MA | 4 mi (6.4 km) [1] | MD, DMD, PhD | |
Geisel School of Medicine | Dartmouth College | 1797, 1970 [a] | Hanover, NH | N/A | MD, PhD, MSc, MPH, MHCDS [b] | |
Yale School of Medicine | Yale University | 1810 [c] | New Haven, CT | 1 mi (1.6 km) | MD, PhD, MSc, PA | |
Alpert Medical School | Brown University | 1811, 1972 [d] | Providence, RI | 0.5 mi (0.80 km) [2] | MD, PhD, MSc | |
Weill Cornell Medicine | Cornell University | 1898 | New York, NY | 230 mi (370 km) [3] | MD, PhD, MSc, MSHS PA [e] |
The Ivy League medical schools have historically been affiliated with many of the most renowned medical centers in the nation. Most of the schools have multiple primary teaching affiliates, although only the most notable ones are listed on this page. Two of the medical schools, Columbia and Cornell, share a medical campus at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, albeit in separate medical centers (Irving and Weill, respectively).
University | Primary Teaching Hospitals | City | Staffed Beds [4] | US News Ranking |
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University of Pennsylvania | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | 839 | 1st in Pennsylvania |
Columbia | NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia University Irving Medical Center) | New York City | 2,696 | 1st in New York |
Harvard | Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | 1,019 | 1st in Massachusetts |
Brigham & Women's Hospital | Boston | 812 | 1st in Massachusetts | |
Dartmouth | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center | Lebanon | 507 | 1st in New Hampshire |
Yale | Yale New Haven Hospital | New Haven | 1,567 | 1st in Connecticut |
Brown | Rhode Island Hospital | Providence | 704 | unranked |
Cornell | NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell Medical Center) | New York City | 2,696 | 1st in New York |
Ivy League medical schools have some of the best reputations among medical schools in the United States. They are some of the oldest institutions of medical education. In 2023, many of the Ivy League schools (as part of a national trend) stopped sending information to the U.S. News medical school rankings [5] ; as of 2024 all but Yale and Dartmouth chose to withdraw and are currently unranked. Current rankings are listed below.
School name | U.S. News-Research (2024) [6] | U.S. News-Primary Care (2024) [7] |
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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | Unranked | Unranked |
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons | Unranked | Unranked |
Harvard Medical School | Unranked | Unranked |
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | Tier 2 | Tier 2 |
Yale School of Medicine | Tier 1 | Tier 3 |
Alpert Medical School (Brown University) | Unranked | Unranked |
Weill Cornell Medicine | Unranked | Unranked |
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